bodhrán

See also: bodhran

Irish

From Middle Irish bodarán (“tabor, drum”). By surface analysis, bodhar (“deaf”) +‎ -án.

bodhrán m (genitive singular bodhráin, nominative plural bodhráin)

Declension of bodhrán

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an bodhrán	na bodhráin
Genitive	an bhodhráin	na mbodhrán
Dative	leis an mbodhrán don bhodhrán	leis na bodhráin

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
bodhrán	bhodhrán	mbodhrán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bodhrán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “bodar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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